Every time you get angry, sad, or experience grief and you do not express the emotions, they are recorded by the body one by one. Listening to the body’s voice to sense the body’s emotions is important for maintaining health. Your health is directly affected by your mood. If you stay in a happy mood for a long time, there is no doubt that your body will be healthier. If you stay angry for a long time, the stress index of the body will soar whenever emotional stressors occur.
Studies show that if you are forced to live and work under stress, your body’s allergy symptoms will double in two days. When you cry, the hormones caused by stress are immediately excreted from your body along with the tears.
10 ways your body’s emotions impact your health
1. Communicating love lowers cholesterol
Letting your family, friends, and partner know how much you love them can effectively reduce your cholesterol index. According to Dr. Kory Floyd and as shown in this study there was a reduction in total cholesterol among those who wrote about the affection they have for those close to them.
2. Heated arguments reduce the self-repair power of the body
If you engage in a heated argument with your partner, your body’s ability to fight disease decreases. If the argument takes place while you are ill, your body has to spend about one more day than usual to recover. If you have a hot temper and easily argue with people, then your self-repair ability is likely to be only half as strong as others.
3. Too much stress lowers the immune system
Short periods of stress, whether they are psychological or physiological, can improve immunity for weeks and produce cancer-fighting molecules. However, if you are stressed over a long period of time, you may suffer from memory loss, poor thinking, lowered immunity, and lowered fertility.
4. Holding emotions in increases the probability of illness
When women swallow their anger after a conflict, they are more likely to suffer from heart disease, stroke, and cancer. On the other hand, if you indulge yourself in the temper and scream when you get angry, even if it’s just for a few minutes, it can cause your blood pressure and heart rate to rise rapidly, making a heart attack 19 percent more likely.
Even a slightly more moderate way of expressing your anger, such as impatience or whining, leads to conditions that are not beneficial to health. Learning to express emotions in a reasonable way is good for both parties involved. Such methods include removing yourself from the situation to cool down and open a dialog, explaining to the other person why you got so upset, taking 10 deep breaths, going for a walk, and so on.
5. Neurons have vitality when you are in love
Falling in love can promote nerve growth factor levels for up to a year. Nerve growth factor is involved primarily in the growth, as well as the maintenance, proliferation, and survival, of nerve cells and it does play an important part in learning and memory.
6. A depressed mood can cause physical pain
Depression, pessimism, and negativity can cause a variety of damage to the body. Serotonin and dopamine are two happiness-related neurotransmitters in the brain and their levels are higher when one’s mood is good. Another important function of serotonin is to help reduce pain. People whose depression is due to a lower level of serotonin can also suffer from a variety of physical pain.
7. Laughing increases growth hormone levels
Laughing will make the body secrete beta-endorphins and increase the level of growth hormone, which helps regulate the immune system and has been associated with lowering joint pain and swelling.
Even laughing without there being something funny to laugh at has been found to be more effective at improving depression than mirthful laughter in certain cases. Laughter really can be the best medicine.
8. Crying helps detoxify your body
Tears contain a large number of stress-related hormones and neurotransmitters. Shedding tears is the body’s way to remove them, and crying is also a good way to release tension. If you hold back from crying, it will prevent the body from detoxifying naturally and can lead to deeper emotional depression, which will eventually lead to a decline in immunity, memory, and digestion.
9. Jealousy triggers blood pressure
Of all human emotions, jealousy is the most intense and painful, as well as the most difficult to control. Women are often jealous because of possible betrayal, while men are often jealous because of doubts about their sexuality. Jealousy is a mixture of fear, stress, and anger, and it triggers the body’s emergency response mechanism. When you are jealous, your blood pressure, pulse, adrenaline, and immune system will be threatened.
10. Forgiveness improves your health
In the heat of the moment, anger will cause blood pressure to rise instantly. What’s more, after the incident whenever the scene returns to your mind, your body’s stress index will rise again. If you have an argument with someone, it is better to forgive them. Doing so will lower your blood pressure and improve your immune system.
To sum it all up, you need to learn to listen to your body and be aware of the changes in your emotions from now on, so you can become healthier and better day by day.
Translated by Audrey Wang
